PEN Literary Award Winners Children/Young Adult

Awards List

2017

Outrun the Moon (Winner)
Stacey Lee

May-2016
/ Historical

2016

The Porcupine of Truth (Winner)
Bill Konigsberg

Jun-2015
/ General Fiction

2015

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (Winner)
Leslye Walton

Mar-2014
/ Romance

Girls Like Us (Finalist)
Gail Giles

Jun-2014
/ General Fiction

The Witch's Boy (Finalist)
Kelly Barnhill

Sep-2014
/ Action Adventure

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (Finalist)
Isabel Quintero

Oct-2014
/ General Fiction

2014

The Lightning Dreamer (Winner)
Margarita Engle

Mar-2013
/ General Fiction

The Fire Horse Girl (Finalist)
Kay Honeyman

Jan-2013
/ Romance

Uses for Boys (Finalist)
Erica Lorraine Scheidt

Jan-2013
/ General Fiction

Coaltown Jesus (Finalist)
Ron Koertge

Oct-2013
/ Christian

2013

Under the Bridge (Winner)
Michael Harmon

Nov-2012
/ Suspense

2012

Icefall (Winner)
Matthew J. Kirby

Oct-2011
/ Fantasy

2011

The Dreamer (Winner)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Apr-2010
/ General Fiction

2010

The Dunderheads (Winner)
Paul Fleischman

Sep-2009
/ General Fiction

2009

The Underneath (Winner)
Kathi Appelt

May-2008
/ General Fiction

2008

Strays (Winner)
Ron Koertge

May-2007
/ General Fiction

2007

Weedflower (Winner)
Cynthia Kadohata

Jul-2008
/ General Fiction

2006

The Tequila Worm (Winner)
Viola Canales

2005
/ Romance

2005

Gifts (Winner)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Sep-2004
/ Fantasy

2004

Zipped (Winner)
Laura McNeal; Tom McNeal

Sep-2004
/ General Fiction

2003

Stoner & Spaz (Winner)
Ron Koertge

May-2002
/ General Fiction

2002

The Land (Winner)
Mildred D. Taylor

Sep-2001
/ Historical

2001

Iris and Walter (Winner)
Elissa Haden Guest

Oct-2000
/ General Fiction

2000

Weslandia (Winner)
Paul Fleischman

Dec-2007
/ General Fiction

1999

Petty Crimes (Winner)
Gary Soto

Jun-1998
/ General Fiction

1998

James Printer (Winner)
Paul Samuel Jacobs

May-1997
/ General Fiction

1996

The Van Gogh Cafe (Winner)
Cynthia Rylant

1995
/ General Fiction

1995

Coyote (Winner)
Gerald McDermott

May-1999
/ Fantasy

1993

Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking An Ashtray? (Winner)
Randy Powell

Apr-1994
/ Romance

1992

Tree of Cranes (Winner)
Allen Say

Nov-1991
/ General Fiction

1991

Dragon's Robe (Winner)
Deborah Nourse Lattimore

May-1990
/ General Fiction

1990

The Forty-Third War (Winner)
Louise Moeri

Oct-1989
/ General Fiction

1989

Probably Still Nick Swansen (Winner)
Virginia Euwer Wolff

Nov-1988
/ General Fiction

Her Own Song (Winner)
Ellen Howard

Feb-1992
/ General Fiction

1988

The Return (Winner)
Sonia Levitin

Apr-1987
/ General Fiction

Street Family (Winner)
Adrienne Jones

Aug-1987
/ General Fiction

1987

The Girl (Winner)
Robbie Branscum

Oct-1986
/ General Fiction

1986

King Bidgood's in the Bathtub (Winner)
Audrey Wood

Nov-1985
/ General Fiction

Top Secret (Winner)
John Reynolds Gardiner

Nov-1995
/ General Fiction

1985

The Butter Battle Book (Winner)
Dr. Seuss

Jan-1984
/ General Fiction

1983

Ratha's Creature (Winner)
Clare Bell

1983
/ Fantasy

The Birds of Summer (Winner)
Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Feb-1983
/ General Fiction

Award Categories

Art of the Essay

Bellwether Prize: Socially Engaged Fiction

Bingham Prize: Debut Story Collection

Children's Illustrated

Children's Literature

Hemingway Award: Debut Fiction

Kroll Award: Illustrated Children's Book

Naylor Working Writer Fellowship: Children's/Young Adult

Open Book

Picture Book

R. Bingham Fellowship

Translation

Award Years

2018